Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a 28 year old woman and I recently got engaged to a man who's almost perfect. We're on the come up and have promising careers and our life plans are laid out. We want the same things, but there's one issue: He hates my mother. I admit she was a little tough on him when they first met, but she only had my best interests at heart. She asked him a lot about his background and ambitions and he took it as criticism....................